Imagine this: You just landed a new job at the Texas Medical Center, but you are dreading the long trek from your home out in Katy. Instead, you decide you'll share a ride - not just to save money but to keep our environment cleaner by keeping one more car off the road. You click on METRO Star and check out vanpooling. Not only ...

    Step outside, and take a deep breath. You have just inhaled the nation's second most polluted air when it comes to ozone.  And if Houston doesn't clean up its ozone level, it stands to let millions of dollars in federal funding slip away, according to a report today on KUHF-FM. But improving our city's ozone ...

  Despite Beijing's best efforts, air pollution became the center issue last week on the eve of the Olympics, when a grey haze cut visibility down to a mile. While Chinese officials struggle with cleaning up the air for athletes, half a world away, Houston-area officials are encouraging individuals to do their part to clean our air. The ...

  Just how clean is the air we breathe in Houston? Today our air was rated code green or "good," as measured by the Air Quality Index, a rating system by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that measures five major pollutants and assigns a color code so we can easily understand how healthy the air is. Green means ...